software needed

hackgod · January 14, 2019

Suggest a free and full pdf to excel converter fast

SupaKomputa · January 14, 2019

PDF to EXCEL?

none to my knowledge.

PDF documents are suppose to be read only.

Blasteque · January 14, 2019

Yeah, I don't think that's possible. I've got the paid version of Acrobat at work and it can't do that. The data is not stored that way. Even with full Acrobat all you can do is scan the doc using text detection; if it detects text (it won't unless it is crystal clear), then you can copy / paste the text, but it won't convert the data to excel -- you can only copy the data cell-by-cell.

Franck · January 14, 2019

47 minutes ago, Blasteque said:

Yeah, I don't think that's possible. I've got the paid version of Acrobat at work and it can't do that. The data is not stored that way. Even with full Acrobat all you can do is scan the doc using text detection; if it detects text (it won't unless it is crystal clear), then you can copy / paste the text, but it won't convert the data to excel -- you can only copy the data cell-by-cell.

I can second that. I have coded my own PDF from adobe specs (which is free btw) and nothing other than copy paste would be possible or some magical parser you code yourself specially for your document. Your "table" you thin is one can be many paragraph keycode, or many line keycode and the grid can be a pixel stretch, a line object, many rectangle object. Possibilities are endless.

LogicalDrm · January 14, 2019

If it has made well, you can just copy things over. SmallPDF has online resources you can use. There's also free, online OCR service, but quality is as what you would expect from that kind of service.

Helibert · January 14, 2019

i also thought wtf.. than googled pdf2excel and well look what i found.. not gonna lie i'm suprised

https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/how-to/pdf-to-excel-xlsx-converter.html

Dgaston · February 9, 2022

On 1/14/2019 at 5:41 PM, Helibert said:

i also thought wtf.. than googled pdf2excel and well look what i found.. not gonna lie i'm suprised

https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/how-to/pdf-to-excel-xlsx-converter.html

I've used this and problem is it's trash.

Specifically just trying to convert a bank statement to Excel for work so we can easily code transactions to the corresponding GL accounts and it always spits out garbage.

How can it be this hard all I need is a column for date, description, and amount and it always comes out looking like a child took a machete to the statement and someone scanned the prices back into a spreadsheet.